Friday, October 30, 2015
Pacific research
PACIFIC
1826 – Methodist missionaries arrived
in Tonga from Australia. (Timeline internet).
1860 – Natives of Vanuatu were
kidnapped as slaves for sugar and cotton plantations in Queensland
Australia and Fiji. (8 July 2011).
10 Oct 1874 – Fiji became a British
possession. (Chch Star NZ. 10 Oct 2014 p11).
1876 – The log of Thomas Andrews,
govt agent on the five month labour voyage of the “Jessie
Henderson”, from Fiji to the Solomon islands to New Hebridies in
1876 has survived. Fiji archives. (NZ genealogist March April 2012
p64).
1879-1906 – About 60,000 south sea
islanders were brought to Queensland Australia by “Blackbirders”
or slaves for sugar plantations. 7 Dec 2012 ABC net.au Tony Eastley.
Sugar cane farmer seeks recognition for buried slaves.
1879-1919 – Indo Fijian history.
Indians in Fiji 1879-2004. Sugarcane plantations from 1879-1919. (NZ
genealogist May June 2011).
14 May 1879 – The first group of 463
Indian slaves arrived in Fiji. Leonidas. (Wikipedia 14 May 2015).
31 Jan 1885 – The Solomon islands.
Auckland Star NZ. Papers past.
1889-1896 – The US annexed the
harbour of the pacific island of Pago Pago in 1889. The built a new
navy between 1890 and 1896 (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone
©2012 US).
1893-1898 – In 1893 American sugar
planters with the US minister in Honolulu. US marines and sailors
toppled Hawaiian Queen Lilinokalani, and installed American Sanford
Dole, a cousin of the pineapple magnate James Dole as president, the
US annexed Hawaii in 1898. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone
©2012 US)
1899 – Cover ups happen in government
departments and injustice follows. Germany got control of the Samoan
islands in 1899. (Justice. Kevin Ryan ©1997 NZ).
11 July 1902 – The coronation
celebration in Fiji. ODT NZ. Papers past.
14 Sept 1906 – New British PNG. Papua
New Guinea. 8 earthquake. 51 people died. Wikipedia.
1911 – WRA Reynolds. Poo-Bah of the
Pacific and the miss rule of the Cook islands. Wellington. (The great
wrong war. Stevan Eldred Grigg ©2010 NZ).
1912 – Frank Fox. Problems of the
Pacific. London. (The great wrong war. Stevan Eldred Grigg ©2010
NZ).
1914 – NZ captured Samoa at the start
of World War One in 1914. (Justice. Kevin Ryan ©1997 NZ).
1914 – James Jeffery. Samoa, the
pearl of the Pacific where everything is different. Dunedin. (The
great wrong war. Stevan Eldred Grigg ©2010 NZ).
1918 – HE Holland. Samoa, a story
that teems with tragedy. Wellington. (The great wrong war. Stevan
Eldred Grigg ©2010 NZ).
1918 – R McK Watson. History of
Samoa.Wellington 1918. (The great wrong war. Stevan Eldred Grigg
©2010 NZ).
1918 – LP Leary. New Zealand and
Samoa. London. (The great wrong war. Stevan Eldred Grigg ©2010 NZ).
1920 – GH Scholefield. The Pacific,
its past and future and the policy of the great powers. London. (The
great wrong war. Stevan Eldred Grigg ©2010 NZ).
20 Feb 1929 – American Samoa became a
territory of the US. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history 20 Feb 2015).
1944 – By 1943 US factories were
producing 100,000 planes a year. By summer 1944 the US had deployed
100 aircraft carriers in the Pacific. (The untold story of the US.
Oliver Stone ©2012 US).
1 Nov 1952 – The US reconstructed a
small part of the earths surface, by detonating the first
thermonuclear device, on a Pacific atoll, which did not survive the
blast. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).
1 Nov 1952 – The first US
thermonuclear test, on the Pacific atoll of Eniwetok. The blast
incinerated birds in flight for miles around, singed feathers and
burned birds. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).
1 Nov 1952 – The US exploded its
first hydrogen bomb, in a test in the Marshall islands. (Bad times in
history. Roland C Barker ©2001 US).
1 March 1954 – The US detonated its
largest thermonuclear device, over Bikini atoll on the 1 March 1954.
The BRAVO test. 15 megatons, it caused a 250 feet deep crater a mile
cross, and a fireball for two miles from the test site. Radiation
fallout spread hundreds of miles, causing the first human casualties
from the H bomb era. 28 Americans, 236 Marshall islanders and the
crew of a Japanese fishing boat were exposed. The boat was the
Fukuryu maru, fishermen got ill and died. Radiation levels. Nov 1952
test, BRAVO explosion. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).
1 March 1954 – The Bravo H bomb test
on Bikini atoll. (The great cold war. Gordon S Barress ©2009 US).
1 March 1954 – US oil supplies as the
US was beginning to import lots of oil. The first US test of an H
bomb at Faniwatok atoll. 15 megatons, it was over 1,000 times greater
than the bomb dumped on Hiroshima Japan. (The great cold war. Gordon
S Barrass ©2009 US).
1957-58 – Atomic nuclear tests.
Victims got compensation from Fiji. British colony, nuclear tests on
Christmas island in 1957 and 1958. (Independent UK. Rob Hastings. 31
Jan 2015).
15 May 1957 – At Malden island in the
Pacific. The UK tested its first hydrogen bomb. In 'Operation
Grapple'. (Wikipedia 15 May 2015).
25 Nov 1958 – The US Commander of the
Pacific fleet was Admiral Arleigh Burke. Spy flights over China. (The
hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).
Oct 1959 – A US RB-57D was shot down
over the Pacific. Aerial surveillance of the Soviet Union. (The
hidden hand. Richard J Aldricch ©2001 UK).
11 May 1962 – An underwater nuclear
test by the US during “Operation Dominic”. Pacific coast off
California. Pbs.twimg. Pinterest.
11 Sept 1966 – France's nuclear test
at Muruora island. (Chch Star NZ. 11 Sept 2015. Today in history).
1968-76 – Christian brother Ian
Robert Carroll in PNG Fatima Banz. Working with Street kids. He lived
in PNG for 26 years. Catholic paedophiles.
25 Nov 1969-1971 – Plague, Malaria
and vaccine experiments on humans. On 25 Nov 1969 pres Nixon put and
end to all US biological warfare, and ordered the US arsenal to be
destroyed. Deadly biological weapons to kill and incapacitate. In
1971 on the atoll in the south Pacific called Johnston island, Red
Hat operation. Johnston atoll where chemical agents were leaking VX.
(Operation Paperclip. Annie Jacobsen (c)2014 US).
1970s – Book Body of secrets by James
Bamford. “Operation Ivy Bells” in the early 1970s. NSA submarines
in the sea of Okhotsk tapped cables connecting the Soviet Pacific
naval fleet base in Petropavlovsk to its HQ in Vladivostok. Divers
from the USS Haliburt sent tapes with recordings to NSA HQ. Info on
the Soviet Pacific fleet. Tapping undersea fibre optic cables and
collecting info. (Black code. Ronald J Deibert ©2013 Canada).
1971 – Vanuatu as a small offshore
center, was created by the British government in 1971. 9 years before
it got independence. (Nicholas Shaxson. Treasure islands (c)2011 UK).
1973 – Nuclear tests and NZ
protesters in the Pacific. Wayne Thompson. NZ Herald. Radiation
health studies. French tests on the Polynesian atoll. Muruoa atoll. 2
Aug 2015.
1976 – Roger Dingman. Power in the
Pacific. The origins of naval armed limitation 1914-22. Chicago uni
of Chicago press.
1976 – Christian brothers at Nukutere
college Rarotonga. br Simon Germaine Coughla. Catholic paedophiles..
Late 1976 – Terrance John Clark.
Raymond Brunnell, importing heroin from Fiji. Terry Clark aka
Alexander Sinclair and the Mr Asia drug syndicate. (Justice. Kevin
Ryan (c)1997 NZ).
March 1978 – Terry Clark, Maria
Muhary, sister Angelique and Jim Shepherd went to Fiji, March 1978.
Before Rabuka’s military takeover. The Fiji island of Taveuni. The
Fiji trip, they met up with Chinese Jack Choo and Martin Johnstone at
the Regent hotel in Nadi. The NZ police rugby team was at the hotel
and they moved to the Hyatt hotel. (Mr Asia. Jim Diamond Shepherd
©2010 Australia).
March April 1978 – A meeting in Fiji
in March or April 1978 at the Roget hotel in Nadi. Terry Clark,
Chinese Jack Choo, Martin Johnstone and Jim Shepherd. Chinese Jack
Choo was related by marriage to Khun Sa. (Mr Asia. Jim Diamond
Shepherd ©2010 Australia).
1980s – New Zealand businessman Bruce
Judge and Adriadne corp, financial services. The Cook islands when it
collapsed. Bruce Judge set up his own shell company through the Cook
islands trust company Willard ltd. Bruce Judge's Adriadne and the
National Commercial bank of Saudi Arabia, NCB linked to BCCI. (The
paradise conspiracy. Ian Wishart (c)1995 NZ).
6 March 1981 – France conducts a
nuclear test at Muruora island. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 6
March 2015).
Late June 1981 – Michael Hand fled
Australia under a false identity, that of a butcher, Alan Glenn
Winter, on a flight to Fiji in late June 1981. He spent a week in
Fiji, false beard and mustache, then went to New York City, Nugan
Hand bank, money laundering for the CIA. (Wiki. Nugan Hand bank).
(The anals of unsolved crime. EJ Epstein ©2012 US).
1983-86 - European Pacific bank in the
Cook islands. National bank of Rarotonga. 18 Oct 1986 laundering
money through New Zealand. Cook islands trust corp. Robert C Allen
was a businessman and CIA agent. A CIA front company called Bishop
Baldwin Dillingham Wong ltd. Ray Cline went to New Zealand in 1986.
NZ Times Nov 1984. Honolulu Hawaii and Bishop Baldwin and co, a CIA
proprietery and front compay went bankrupt in August 1983. (The
paradise conspiracy.Ian Wishart. (c)1995 NZ).
1985 – East Timor violations of human
rights, executions, disappearances, torture and political
imprisonment 1975-1984. book. Worldcat database Amnesty int. London
UK.
1985-86 – BNZ. European Pacific
investments. Rarotonga tax haven. Cook islands. Winston Peters,
Tonga, US and UK 26 Nov 1986. Armin Matti a Swiss bullion trader.
Samir Bashout aka Khalaf Bashout. Cook islands govt. In Nov 1985
Bashot, American and the Cook islands. (The paradise conspiracy. Ian
Wishart (c)1995 NZ)
1985-1994 – 14 Jan 1986 Cook islands.
2 Feb 1986. 30 Nov 1985. Chase Manhattan bank, fraud. Commercial bank
of commerce, an entity subsidiary of BCCI. BCCI collapsed in July
1991, fraud, money laundering, drug and gun running. Rarotonga BNZ.
European Pacific bank. BCCI and Commerical bank of comerce in
Rarotonga 1994 winebox, Winston Peters. (The paradise conspiracy. Ian
Wishart (c)1995 NZ).
1986-1994 – Another piece of the
puzzle. A letter 4 April 1986 Cook islands offshore bank. European
Pacific banking corp. NZ gold bullion trader Ray Smith. Bankrupt and
jail in 1994. In the Cook islands in the mid 1980s, 12,000 tonnes of
gold for Marcos in the Philippines. Goldcorp and a bogus gold mine in
the Cook islands. (The paradise conspiracy. Ian Wishart. (c)1995 NZ).
1987 – Lagaga. A short history of
western Samoa. Malama Meleisea. Penelope Schoeffel Meleisea. Google
books.
1987 – Tropical Cyclone Uma hit
Vanuatu, 48 people died and 5,000 people were made homeless. A
category 4 storm. (The Guardian UK 13 March 2015).
Jan 1987 – 1986 Brierley investments
ltd BIL, merchant banking. Fay Richwhite tax haven bank and
Rarotonga. European Pacific bank. European Pacific investments.
Luxembourg stock exchange. BNZ listed on NZ stock exchange in Jan
1987. Cook islands tax haven. (The paradise conspiracy. Ian Wishart
(c)1995 NZ).
July 1987 – The 1987 false tax
certificates prepared for Australian billoinaire Alan Bond's company
in the Cook islands. The Cook islands minister of police was Norman
George. Brierley investments, crooked politics in the Cook islands.
False tax certificates, secret accounts and bank laws. Mr Norman
George and promisory notes. (The paradise conspiracy. Ian Wishart
(c)1995 NZ).
29 July 1987 – Magnum corp and 3
Japanese banks. Mitsubishi, Fuji and Sanwai. BNZ loans to Japanese
banks through Bermuda based tax haven companies, The Cook islands
govt and bogus tax credit certificates. Cook islands officials and
European Pacific. False tax certificates. Rarotonga, Michael Fleming
was head of the Cook islands dept. (The paradise conspiracy. Ian
Wishart (c)1995 NZ).
25 Sept 1987 – A second coup in Fiji,
was led by maj gen Sitiveni Rabuka. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history.
25 Sept 2015).
25 Nov 1987 – Charles Sturt from the
NZ Serious fraud Office. Equiticorp and Alan Hawkins. Cook islands
witholding tax, fake tax certificates. David Lloyd and European
Pacific. David Richwhite and Paul Collins. Brierley investments.
Peter Travers BNZ and Magnum corp. (The paradise conspiracy. Ian
Wishart (c)1995 NZ).
1989-1997 – br Anthony Roberto
Gherardi taught at Nukutere college Avarua Cook islands Catholic
Christian brothers, paedophiles.
20 April 1989 – NZ Herald. Interpol.
Swedish tourists Auckland to the Cook islands planned a flight on 20
April 1989. They never made the flight. (Missing pieces. Swedish
tourist murders. Ian Wishart. (c)2012 NZ).
Lots missing here.
4 Feb 1994 – Serious Fraud office NZ.
European Pacifc and Citibank 6 Nov 1992 Charles Sturt 22 Dec 1993 the
winebox. Winston Peters and Stephen Lunn. 4 Feb 1994. A Cook islands
based company owned by BNZ, Brierley investments and Merchant bank
Fay Richwhite. Tax departments in Australia, NZ and Japan. A lot of
money. (The parafdise conpsracy. Ian Wishart (c)1995 NZ).
16 March 1994 – Winston Peters, tax
haven Cook islands. Winebox and Tony Ryall, BNZ staf fand European
Pacific. David Lloyd. Record keeping 16 March 1994 Cook islands
Norman George. Rarotonga. Don McKinnon. International money
laundering and cover up of crimes. (The paradise conspiracy. Ian
Wishart (c)1995 NZ).
1995 – The French government
continues testing of nuclear devices at Moruroa Atoll. On 20 July
1995, 6 Aug 1995 PM NZ Jim Bolger. Boats to Rarotonga 18 Aug 1995.
Cook islands Moruroa Tahiti. Previous nuclear tests. French boats,
planes and helicopters. An orange hue tainted the sky over Moruroa
atoll, the French had exploded a nuclear device. (Peter Williams QC
©1997 NZ)
1995 – Documents showing money
launderng and former CIA, US Defence dept people in the Cook islands
as employees. Lawrence John Fahey aged 54 an American advisor to Sir
Tom Davis. Ties with InterAir, a Nevada based airline, linked to arms
smuggling during Iran Contra. William Raupe a CIA veteran of the
Vietnam war, USAID. US embassy in Suva Fiji. (The paradise
conspirasy. Ian Wishart (c)1995 NZ).
1995 – HJ Hiery. The neglected war.
The German south Pacific and the influence of World War One.
Honolulu. (The great wrong war. Stevan Eldred Grigg ©2010 NZ).
1995 – The Cook islands govt and 12
letters to pay $100 million to a Bahamas shell company. The Cook
islands government was at least $1 billion in debt. NZ was giving the
Cook islands $13 millioin a year in foreign aid. An Italian hotel
ptoject. A court was burned down and destroyed. (The paradise
conspiracy. Ian Wishart (c)1995 NZ).
17 July 1998 – In PNG a 7.1
earthquake caused the the seabed to drop 7 feet, there was a tsunami
of 50 feet. 8,000 people died. Archeology magazine.
17 July 1998 – Papua New Guinea 2,100
people were killed in a 7 earthquake. Rapture Ready.
17 July 1998 – Papua New Guinea tidal
wave. 7 quake. Solomon islands 3,000 people were killed. Malol Arop
Otto Sissano. Timeline of earthquakes.
17 July 1998 – Three tsunamis, caused
by an earthquake, rose 30 feet, destroying 7 villages in Papua New
Gunea. The death toll was about 4,000, half the local population.
(Bad times in history. Roland C Barker ©2001 US).
27 Nov 1999 – Mass graves found in
Timor. John Aglionby. The Guardian UK.
21 Dec 1999 – Mass graves found in
East Timor. John Aglionby. The Guardian UK.
2000 – 357kg heroin was found in Suva
Fiji, worth $100 million. One of the worlds largest ever drug
seizures. Trans shipment through Fiji. (Stuff.co.nz 22 Dec 2014).
24 Oct 2000 – Fiji asks New Zealand
to warn about visits by paedophiles. Leah Haines. Dominion Wellington
NZ. Paedophiles travel to Fiji, travel and extradite.
30 Oct 2000 - $100m heroin haul. Drugs
destined for Australia, in Fiji. Illawarra. Wollongong. NSW. Fiji on
drugs charges.
16 Nov 2000 – Papua New Guinea tidal
wave. 8 earthquake. one person died and 5,000 people were made
homeless. Timeline of earthquakes.
8 March 2001 – Fiji a Pacific for
organised crime, police. Neil Mercer. Sydney Morning Herald. Drugs
and people smuggling. Mr Mick Palmer.
8 March 2001 – Fiji a Pacific
paradise for organised crime, police. Neil Mercer Adelaide. Sydney
Morning Herald NSW. Organised crime groups are targeting the south
Pacific, trans national crime syndicates.
4 July 2001 – East Timor militia
leaders. Timorese Socialist party. BBC London UK. Political party
Timorese Socialist party PST.
28 Sept 2001 – Australian police,
Vanuatu for heroin cache. Ben Bohane. Port Villa. Sydney Morning
Herald. Peter Bong. AFP. Bob Lehman.
9 Sept 2002 – Papua New Guinea 3
people were killed when a tidal wave hit and 40 homes were washed
away. Timeline of earthquakes.
31 Oct 2002 – Vanbdhana Pritika Jeet
disappeared in Fiji. She disappeared when she was 18 years old.
Missing person.
17 December 2002 – Fears of a coup
and renewed violence, sparked by disgruntled police, who fired on the
PM’s home in Honiara. New Zealand born … Lloyd Powell and others
fled the country on a chartered plane. (Christchurch Press AFP Kiwis
flee Solomon islands.)
23 December 2002 – PM pays
extortionists. Australia criticised Solomon islands PM, Sir Allen
Kemakeza, for using public money to pay more than $A 360,000 to
police, who were extorting him. We have made the point that the
Solomon islands government cannot give in to extortion. New Zealand
and Australian police were trying to restore law and order.
(Christchurch Press AFP)
11 Oct 2003 – Samoa warns no leniency
for foreign paedophiles. BBC London. Lilu Vaomalo Kini, paedophiles.
2004 – Suva Fiji a factory, chemicals
to make $1 billion worth of meth. Hong Kong and Malaysians were
arrested. Exporting meth. Six New Zealand police officers went to
Suva Fiji. (Stuff.co.nz. 22 Dec 2014).
9 Aug 2004 – Chinese Communist party
invites Vanuatu PM to Beijing. BBC London UK. Central committee of
the Chinese Communist party vice minister Mr Zhang Zhijun.
22 or 27 November 2004 – Vanuatu
stolen aid. Australia has expressed concern about trans-national
crime in Vanuatu and the implications for regional security,
lawlessness and deeply entrenched corruption. PM Serge Vohor visited
Taiwan to sign a military agreement to grant Taiwan official
diplomatic recognition in spite of Vanuatu’s recognition of China.
Australian aid to Vanuatu is being stolen by the government. No money
was going to the people. Australia threatened to cut aid. Pm Serge
Vohor refused to take part in Australian diplomatic talks in Port
Vila. (AFP Christchurch Press).
27 November 2004 – Takiveikato was
found guilty on three charges of inciting a mutiny. On 2 November
2000 in which rebel soldiers tried to kill military commander Voreque
Bainimarama. (The Fiji Times Christchurch Press AFP).
2 December 2004 – A report the
Pacific is viable, written by Australian national university
professor Helen Hughs, was released by the centre for independent
studies. The report suggests policy changes, including abandoning
communal land ownership for individual property rights and freeing up
labour markets. Aid to the Pacific region was more than $1.5 billion
a year. (Christchurch Press NZPA).
10 Dec 2004 – Paedophiles top online
crime threat. Papua New Guinea Post Courier Port Morsbey. Online
paedophiles are a threat on the internet, British.
21 April 2005 – Illegal fisheries
part of organised crime. Papua New Guinea Post Courier Port Morsbey.
Organised Asian crime syndicates.
12 May 2006 – Organised crime claim.
Sheila Lasibori. Papua New Guinea Post Courier port Morsbey. Asian
organised crime transnational crime int TNCU.
15 Sept 2006 – Officials confirm
threats. Papua New Guinea Post Courier Port Morseby. Malaysian and
Chinese triads are operating in the country.
18 October 2006 – Fiji PM warns of a
coup threat.
1 November 2006 – Commodore
Bainimarama is in Iraq. He told the Fiji Sun newspaper, the EU,
Australian, NZ and US. Governments had been deeply corrupt and
unconstitutional practises by the Qarase led government. (Stuff NZ
news Michael Field).
20 November 2006 – International
criminals are said to have laundered billions on the island of Nauru
in the past ten years. The US accused Nauru of selling large numbers
of false passports. (VOA Phil Mercer Sydney).
27 November 2006 – Tension grows with
coup alert. There was clear evidence that the military chief was
planning to stage a coup within two weeks. (Fiji Pacific).
19 Feb 2007 - US to stage biggest
anti-terrorist exercise on Guam. The worlds biggest anti-terrorism
exercise will be held this year on Guam. Underscoring the Pacific
islands groups importance to Washington. Exercise TopOff4 is part of
a series of large scale moves, to strengthen the US ability to
respond to terrorist attacks involving WMD. William Marhoffer the US
coast guard commander in Guam said the TopOff4 exercise would be
bigger than last years Valiant shield war game in which the US, 30
ships, 280 aircraft and 22,000 military personnel. (Washington Times
19 Feb 2007. Cable gram. Agence France presse)
6 March 2007 - Vanuatu PM Ham Lini
state of emergency. Port Vila ethnic clashes left two men dead and
eight others in hospital. Armed police arrested more than 100 people.
Dozens of armed personnel from the Vanuatu mobile forces made arrests
for unlawful assembly, assault and property damage said police
spokesman Willie Ben (Christchurch Press AP).
2 May 2007 – Papua New Guinea
parliament votes to allow casinos and internet gambling. BBC London.
3 May 2007 – PNG bets on casinos The
Daily Telegraph Surry hills NSW. Passed a law allowing casinos and
internet gambling PNG.
7 Feb 2008 – Foreign drugs now on the
streets in PNG. Pearson Kolo. Papua New Guinea Port Morsby, cocaine.
28 March 2008 – Organised crime
business in the city. Papua New Guinea Post. Courier. Port Moresby.
Organised crime international.
15 April 2008 – Asian mafia has grip
on PNG. Daniel Kumbon. Papua New Guinea Post. Port Morsbey. Chinese
mafia, Triads, already in PNG. Canada and Australia.
5 June 2008 – Fiji forum, Pacific
transnational crime. BBC London. Cocaine and heroin.
6 June 2008 – Transnational crime a
threat. Verenaisi Raicola. The Fiji Times Suva. Cocaine and heroin.
17 June 2008 – Sophisticated crime
shows triads. Papua New Guinea Courier Port Morseby. Chinese triads
entering country.
19 Aug 2008 – Niue meeting told
transnational crime a threat in Pacific. BBC London Cocaine heroin.
29 Sept 2009 – Samoa islands 8.3
earthquake and tsunami. (Aljazeera 15 Oct 2013).
29 Sept 2009 – 8.3 earthquake and
tsunamis in Samoa 136 people were killed dozens of people were
missing. Timeline of earthquakes.
30 Nov 2009 – State Human
trafficking. Timoci Valu The Fiji Times Suva. International human
trafficking.
23 Dec 2009 – Paedophile Roderick
Robinson aka MacDonald was due to face trail in NZ on 3 counts of sex
attacks on 2 girls under 12. 3 to 8 Nov 2008 in Hamilton New Zealand.
Trial was due 31 May 2010. He fled to Fiji before 23 Dec 2009. False
passport? (TVNZ 23 Oct 2014).
2010 – Palermo in the Pacific.
Organised crime in the Asia Pacific region. Andreas Schloenhardt
ebook Martinus Nijhoff pub (Worldcat database).
4 Jan 2010 – Tsunami in the Solomon
islands 1,000 people were made homeless. There were 8 earthquakes
since 3 Jan. 7.2 earthquake in Gizo. Timeline of earthquakes.
5 Jan 2010 – Triads after PNG
shooting. The Australian national. Organised crime, triads Chinese
migrants.
25 March 2010 – Chinese stunned. PNG
Post Courier. Papua New Guinea. Chinese triads are sponsoring
candidates in the 2012 election.
25 March 2010 – Triads in PNG
politics. The Australian national. Asian triads are sponsoring
candidates for next election.
19 May 2010 – Loopholes allow
trafficking. Shareen Chand. The Fiji Times Suva. Sex trafficking of
children. Sexploitation. Iris McKenzie. Sex trafficking is mistakenly
called willing prostitution.
22 June 2010 – US demands action on
child trafficking. The Fiji Times Suva Child trafficking in Fiji.
16 Dec 2010 – New Zealand spied on
the Fiji military. Wikileaks cables show. Stuff.co.nz. Michael Field.
February 2011 – Elder Perry creates
the first LDS stake in Guam. (Ensign p78).
30 March 2011 – AFP Fiji police
operation results in cocaine bust. PAC news Suva. Importing cocaine
into Australia from Fiji.
26 May 2011 – NZ police detective,
Mark Franklin, was arrested and charged with drug dealing in
Rarotonga. (Political kiwi).
5 July 2011 – Sex trafficking is a
huge problem in the northern Marianas. Pacnews Suva. Sex trafficking
victims in Pacific countries.
16 July 2011 – Two casinos have
opened in Samoa. Kate Chapman The Press Christchurch. First casinos
to be built in Samoa, license one on each of Samoa’s main islands.
18 July 2011 – Samoan casinos
forbidden for locals. Pacnews Suva.
21 Oct 2011 – 7.6 earthquake in
Tonga. Timeline of earthquakes.
9 Feb 2012 – Ecuador. Police in Italy
found nearly 90 pounds (40 kilos) of cocaine in January 2012, in
diplomatic mail sent to Italy. Two suspects were arrested. Crates
inspected by police dogs before leaving Ecuador, travel to Italy
through a third country (AP 2/9/12 timeline internet).
17 April 2012 – 7 earthquake in Papua
New Guinea. Timeline of earthquakes.
7 November 2012 – Big gold and silver
find in the waters off Tonga. Nautilus mineral mining company. (TVNZ
Stuff.co.nz Michael Field)
16 Nov 2012 – Body, cocaine haul find
on yaught, 200kg cocaine destined for Australia. Found on yaught on a
Pacific atoll. ABC Sydney.
16 November 2012 – Cocaine and a
corpse was found on an Australian bound yacht. In Tongan waters.
(Lisa Martin AAP.The Australian).
16 November 2012 – Corpse and
cocaine, worth $120 million, was found on a shipwrecked boat in
Tonga. Suspected to be from Ecuador. (The Vancouver Sun AP Sydney).
16 November 2012 – The Pacific’s
largest cocaine haul was found on a yacht in Vava’u Tonga. From
Ecuador bound for Australia, the US DEA said in August 2012.
Organised crime syndicate and a dead body was on the boat too.
(Matangi Tonga online).
16 November 2012 – Nauru police
charged 15 Iranian asylum seekers with doing damage on the island.
(Herald Sun).
16 Nov 2012 – Tonga police uncover
massive cocaine haul. TVNZ yacht in Tonga with a dead body on board a
cargo of cocaine.
19 Nov 2012 – World bank approves
$US1.8 million grant for Tonga. Matangi Tonga online.
23 Nov 2012 – Australia defends tough
media detention centre restrictions. VOA Sydney, Papua New Guinea and
Nauru media are banned.
6 Feb 2013 – 8 earthquake on the
Solomon islands and a tsunami. 9 people were killed and homes were
destroyed. Timeline of earthquakes.
17 April 2013 – 6.8 earthquake in
Papua New Guinea. Timeline of earthquakes.
22 August 2013 – Australian police
seized a huge cocaine haul in the Pacific. Fox news. 750kg yachts
trafficking drugs in the south Pacific.
23 August 2013 – Vanuatu police snare
record cocaine haul in Port Vila harbour. 600kgs of cocaine with the
Australian federal police. Radio NZ int.
23 August 2013 – AFP probe Australian
links to Vanuatu drug boat 750kg. news.com.au.
23 August 2013 - $425 million worth of
cocaine was seized from a Vanuatu yacht. NZ Herald. US and Australian
agents. Stuff.co.nz, 750kg cocaine on a yacht in Vanuatu hidden under
concrete
24 Aug 2013 – Vanuatu, huge drug
haul. Dominion Post Wellington NZ p4.
16 Oct 2013 – 7.1 earthquake in Papua
New Guinea. Timeline of Earthquakes.
2014 – Solomon islands flooding and
earthquakes, disaster.
1 April 2014 – PNG transnational
crime. PNG Papua New Guinea. Crystal meth worth $US 20 million..
2 July 2014 – Radio NZ. Alleged
interference in Vanuatu citizenship.
2 July 2014 – Radio NZ. Malnutrition
Pacific poverty. Severe malnutrition in the Pacific region especially
children
21 Aug 2014 – Truth of shooting still
murkey. Fiji police investigation shows a video of men shot at sea, a
Somalian pirate hijacking.
23 Aug 2014 – Human trafficking UN.
Uni of Guam sex trafficking. Pacific daily news www.unwht.org
30 Aug 2014 – Radio NZ. Unemployment
and poverty are major factors in the Pacific. IMF. Fiji Times
reports.
17 Sept 2014 – TVNZ One news. 6.7
earthquake hits Guam. Minor damage and power cuts.
17 Sept 2014 – Reuters 7.1 earthquake
strikes Guam. Manuel Mogato and Nick Macfie.
17 Sept 2014 – Guam earthquake 6.7 in
Lalate St Louis. ABC news.
19 Sept 2014 – Guam police officer
was charged with sexual assault. San Francisco Chronicle Hagatna Guam
AP. Charged the police officer with misconduct and sexual assault.
30 Sept 2014 – Sydney Morning Herald.
Sex abuse and rape threats. Nauru asylum seekers. Threats by guards.
Sarah White. Michael Gordon. Detention centre.
12 Oct 2014 – Unions in Tonga
threaten strikes over the cost of living. Radio NZ. Trade unions and
public servants, Tonga strikes.
20 Oct 2014 – Crime syndicate busted,
9 people were charged with drugs and a gun. Involved in a drug
syndicate which imported drugs from Papua New Guinea. Meth.
Australian police, crime ring linked to cannabis in Queensland. (ABC
Australia).
22 Oct 2014 – New Zealander, Labour
MP Shane Jones becomes Nauru’s new High Commissioner to the small
island state. Waatea news.com.
22 Oct 2014 – Papua New Guinea
Bouganville government begins a missing persons policy. ICRC press
release. Port Morsbey Red Cross, missing person cases.
23 Oct 2014 – NZ union backs charity
educating Fiji workers. Radio NZ. A charity backed by NZ unions in
Fiji workers struggle.
30 Oct 2014 – UN hears Fiji police
brutality is not new. Radio NZ. Assault in police custody is not new
in Fiji. Police corruption and brutality.
31 Oct 2014 – Corruption in Papua New
Guinea. Crawford school of public policy. Australia national
university.
31 Oct 2014 – Billy Ginger Hanson
aged 9 who disappeared from Seattle US with his father is found.
Daily Mail. Found on a remote island in the South Pacific 5,500 miles
from home.
1 Nov 2014 – Australia to invest $8.8
million in Fiji. The Australian. Funds over 4 years. Australia new
aid policy. Foreign minister Julie Bishop.
2 Nov 2014 – Quake hits off Fiji.
Stuff.co.nz. 5.3 earthquake.
2 Nov 2014 – 6.9 earthquake off
Tonga. ABC online. South Pacific west northwest of Tonga north east
of Ndoi island in Fiji.
8 Nov 2014 – Earthquake Papua New
Guinea 6.4 or 6.6 or 6.9. ABC Australia widely felt.
10 Nov 2014 – Australian riot police
in the Solomon islands for elections. Radio NZ. More than 90 police
were flown in to cover next weeks elections.
12 Nov 2014 – PNG police say
corruption is widespread. Radio NZ. Papua New Guinea.15 MPs are
currently under investigation.
13 Nov 2014 – Military news in the
Pacific and Ukraine show Russia is back. The Australian. Convoy of
Russian warships in international waters north of Australia. Jared
Owens The Times UK. AFP.
17 Nov 2014 – Independent commission
needed in Solomon islands to tackle corruption. ABC Australia.
1 Dec 2014 – Armed men held
passengers captive, ransacked the offices of Papua New Guinea’s
second largest airport. ABC Australia. Liam Cochrane. Nadzab airport,
broke into a safe, the Air Niugini safe. The men escaped.
13 Dec 2014 – Missing people. Fiji
Times. Increase in the number of people reported missing in Fiji in
recent days.
22 Dec 2014 – Heroin found in Fiji
$20 to $30 million worth of heroin was found in quad bike tyres. A
man was arrested. Stuff.co.nz. Heroin found in quad bike tyres.
22 Dec 2014 – Police FRCA raid
uncovers $30 million worth of heroin. Timoci Vulc. Heroin hidden in a
container. Tyres of a quad bikes, heroin consignment from China. The
Fiji Times online.
23 Dec 2014 – Fiji’s biggest heroin
bust. $25 million worth at Fiji’s Latoka wharf, the largest heroin
seizure in Fiji. One person was arrested. Fiji Sun online.
Businessman to appear in court, a 40 year old. Radio NZ. Fiji Times.
28 Dec 2014 – Democrat Akilisi Pohiva
is Tonga’s new PM. Radio NZ. He was elected ‘by the parliament’
in Tonga.
30 Dec 2014 – Big volcanic eruption
near Tonga’s capital. Michael Field. Stuff.co.nz.
31 Dec 2014 – New eruption at Hunga
Tonga Hunga Ha’apei. Wired. Erik Klemetti.
2015 – Radiation is killing the
Pacific. Fukushima Japan. Dr Apsley, videos on YouTube. Amazing
discoveries. No date. TEPCO has been pumping contaminated water into
the Pacific ocean. 1 Aug 2014. David Gutierrez. National news.
8 Jan 2015 – 11 people are missing at
sea in Papua New Guinea. PNG Today. Three children are included. A
search is underway.
23 Jan 2015 – Vanuatu 7 earthquake
reported on Twitter.
24 Jan 2015 – Thousands protest in
PNG over the police shooting of young man. Radio NZ. Hanuabada police
HQ in PNG, police shooting of a young man.
31 Jan 2015 – Atomic nuclear tests on
Christmas island in 1957 and 1958. A British colony. Victims got
compensation from Fiji. (Independent K. Rob Hastings.)
31 Jan 2015 – 1957 and 1958 British
nuclear tests, Christmas island. Mirror UK. Susie Boniface.
5 March 2015 – Toby Manhire. New
Zealand spies on the Pacific for NSA’s Five Eyes says Edward
Snowden. The Guardian UK.
13 March 2015 – Vanuatu in lockdown
for cyclone Pam, superstorm, a category 5 storm. Cellphone and other
networks down. Flooding and landslides. At 4pm trees were beginning
to be uprooted. Cave systems in Tanna and Erremanga. People in the
Solomons sheltered in caves. (Radio NZ int).
13 March 2015 – BBC UK Cyclone Pam
news.
13 March 2015 – SBC Australia APP.
Flooding in Vanuatu, Kiribati and Tuvalu as cyclone Pam strengthens.
13 March 2015 – Joshua Robertson.
Cyclone Pam, a massive storm bearing down on Vanuatu. 260,000 people
in its path. Port Vila in lockdown, a category 5 storm. The Guardian
UK.
13 March 2015 – A state of emergency
in Tuvalu. Cyclone Pam, flooding washing away homes and damaging
grave sites. Radio NZ int.
13 March 2015 – Cyclone Pam in the
Solomon islands. People are seeking shelter in caves. Category 5
storm destroyed homes. Extensive damage to homes. Tikopia lost 90% of
its food crops and fruit trees. Water is contaminated. All phone
lines are down. Radio NZ int.
15 March 2015 – New Zealand’s GCSB
is targeting the Solomon islands PM’s inner circle. Dylan Moran.
Cyclone Pam just hit the Solomon islands. People sheltered in caves.
Newstalk NZ.
19 March 2015 – Mass immunisations
in Vanuatu. Vaccines by UNICEF. 1,000 children vaccinated in the next
ten days. They have already vacinated 1,000 children under 5, in the
last 24 hours. 10,000 to be vaccinated in the next 10 days.
Malnourished children with no food to eat. Radio NZ int.
30 March 2015 – A 7.7 earthquake in
Papua New Guinea, near the Solomon islands. USGS. RT.
30 March 2015 – Three undersea
earthquakes near Niuatoputapu. Matangi Tonga. Three large quakes 6.8
and 6.4.
30 March 2015 – Earthquakes strike
Samoa and Tonga. The Guardian UK. A series of quakes. Two size 6
quakes hit off Samoa's east. ABC online.
30 March 2015 – A 7.7 earthquake in
Papua New Guinea. Tsunami, a small one. Aftershocks expected. Daily
Mail online UK.
30 March 2015 – A 7.7 earthquake in
Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning was issued. Only a small one.
Aftershocks expected. Times of India. AP Sydney.
31 March 2015 – Tsunami warning after
PNG hit by 7.5 quake aftershock. Arab news.
21 May 2015 – 6.9 earthquake in the
Pacific. An undersea quake near Santa Cruz, Honiara Solomon islands.
No tsunami warning was issued.
22 June 2015 – Deep 6.5 earthquake
near Ndoi island Fiji. (Anonymous Twitter).
18 July 2015 – A 6.9 earthquake near
the Solomon islands. An undersea quake. Originally a 7.5 but was
downgraded. Stuff.co.nz.
31 July 2015 – Anonymous uncensored
Twitter. Manam in PNG a large volcanic eruption. Wired science. Erik
Klemetti.
17 Oct 2015 – An earthquake 4.8 hits
the Marriana islands region. Twitter. Your Anon Facts.
17 Oct 2015 – Vanuatu lawmakers were
arrested for granting themselves pardons for corruption. Vanuatu
arrested 11 of 14 lawmakers. TVNZ. Jakarta Post.
17 Oct 2015 – Three strong
earthquakes in the New Britain region of Papua New Guinea. 5.4
earthquake. Guardian liberty voice.
18 Oct 2015 – Earthquake near the
Tonga islands. A very strong 6 earthquake shook the Tongan islands.
The Public Slate.
19 Oct 2015 – 5 earthquake in the
Fiji islands. Email.
21 Oct 2015 – 7.3 earthquake off
Vanuatu. No tsunami Straits Times. USGS. Sydney AFP.
21 Oct 2015 – The PNG police
commissioner was arrested. Geoffrey Vaki. He did not turn up in
court. Radio NZ.
27 Oct 2015 – An unexploded wartime
bomb was found on the Nauru refugee center building site. Guardian
Australia. Twitter.
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Thursday, October 29, 2015
Iraq research
Iraq
4500 BC – Ancient Sumarian texts.
Mesopotamia Iraq. Sumerians. Care2 news.
4100-3200 BC – In Sumer, Mesopotamia
now southern Iraq. Betweeen the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
History's first books appeared. 100,000 books were destroyed in
Sumer. Military conflict. Ancient books were revealed by archeology.
Wars and fires. (A universal history of the destruction of books.
Fernando Baez (c)2004 US).
2500 BC – Iraq 3500 to 2500 BC. The
Sumerians Mesopotamia. The land of Assyria, the bronze age. Timemaps.
History atlas.
2100-1781 BC - 3rd millenium
BC a temple at Nippur in south east Iraq. Filled with clay tablets
under the third Dynasty of Ur. 2100 BC Sumer and Akkad. Archives on
clay tablets. Archives at Mari on the Euphrates river 20,000 tablets
of the Assyrian rule 1813-1781 BC. (Archives power. Randall C
Jimerson (c)2009 US).
1792-1750 BC – Iraqi library of
Babylonia. King Hammurabi looted the archives and took them to his
palace library. Ancient Akkadian .. in Cuneifern. Sumerian language
learning. (A universal history of the destruction of books. Fernando
Baez (c)2004 US).
1500 BC – The Kingdom of Elam, the
Bronze age. Mesopotamia. Timemaps. History atlas.
880 BC – Nimrud rises to power as the
capital of Assyria. (The story of archeology. Justin Pollard (c)2007
UK)
732 BC – Assyrians in Iraq were
terrorists. Temple of Nineveh. Assyrians spoke a language called
Akkadian, its extinct, but similar to Arabic. The Assyrians attacked
Israel in 732 BC. (The harbinger. Jonathan Cahn (c)2011 US).
717-706 BC – Khorsabad is an ancient
Assyrian capital, near Mosul. Palace built in 717 and 706 BC. Asyrian
King Sargon II. French excavations in the mid 1800s. Chicago US
excavations in the 1930s. Iraq Baghdad, The US, France and ISIS.
(National geographic. Andrew Curry 5 Oct 2015).
700 BC – Nineveh was established as
the Assyrian capital. (The story of archeology. Justin Pollard
(c)2007 UK).
700 BC – Ninevah ancient Assyria. 900
to 600 BC Assyrian Kings. Assyrian emperor Sennacherib 700 BC. At one
point Ninevah was the largest city in the world. (National geogaphic.
Andrew Curry 5 Oct 2015).
689-612 BC – 689 BC Sennacherib
troops seized Baghdad. His grandson, Asurbanigal founded a library
which was destroyed in 612 BC. Thousands of tablets were stolen or
destroyed. (A universal history of the destruction of books. Fernando
Baez (c)2004 US).
0000 Jesus Christ was born and lived.
4th century – Mar Behnan
monastery and a Christian saint, a holy site. 1800s. Catholic monks,
it fell to ISIS in March. (Natonal geographiuc. Andrew Curry 5 oct
2015).
1258 – Some books can be found on the
shelves of used bookstores. The Mongoli arrived during their conquest
of cental Asia. Followers of Genghis Khan destroyed Islamic book
repositories in 1258 the Mongols burned all 36 public libraries in
the city of Baghdad. (A history of info storage and retrieval. Foster
Stockwell ©2001 US).
1801 – The Saud Wahhabi armies
destroyed the shrine of Hussein in Karbula Iraq. Shiites were
massacred by the thousands. The destruction of venerated tombs and
saint shrines. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).
1840 – Nimrod was the first Assyrian
capital founded 3,200 years ago. It was excavated in 1840 by the UK.
They took stone sculptures to New York and London. Some of the city
in underground and near Mosul. (National geographic. Andrew Curry 5
oct 2015).
1921 – Mosul was built over Ninevah.
ISIS destroyed it in 2014. Mosul museum. Nineveh and the ancient
Nirgal gate. Mosul library was looted. Centuries old manusciups were
stolen and sold on the black market. Mosul was burned in Dec 2014 by
ISIS. (National geographic. Andrew Curry 5 Oct 2015).
1927 – Oil was discovered in Iraq by
American geologists. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005
US).
28 April 1937 – Saddam Hussein was
born. Iraq timeline. History timelines.
1943 – Baath party, the movement of
Arab resistance was formed in Damascus Syria by Michel Aflaq and Sala
al Din Bitar. They supported the Rashid Ali pro German regime in
Iraq, which set up a fascist background to the party.
14 Aug 1951 – Zagros in northern
Iraq, the Shanider cave. Kurdish in 1951. Shanider cave, artifacts
and bones, a graveyard with 28 modern humans. 8 neanderthal skeletons
were unearthed, a few neanderthal graveswere inside the cave.
Northern Iraq, some people were killed by falling rocks from the cave
roof. Ceiling collapse, rockfall. An earthquake. Also on 14 Aug 1951
another earthquake happened there. (Apocalypse. Amos Nur. (c)2008
US).
1964 – Pres Abdul Salam Aref of Iraq
asked Nasser of Egypt to pardon Qutb and invited him to Iraq. Qutb
declined. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).
July 1972 – Sadat expelled the
Russians from Egypt. Moscow was still able to strengthen ties with
Syria and Iraq. (Arms bazaar ©1977 Sampson).
8 Aug 1979 – Iraqi president Saddam
Hussein executed 22 political opponents. (HistoryOrb.com).
22 Sept 1980 – Saddam Hussein’s
Iraq invaded Iran. The war lasted for eight years. There were dozens
of suicide attacks. More than one million people died on each side.
(Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).
1982 – Four Arab countries account
for more than 70% of Soviet arms exports to the Middle East region.
With Iraq and Syria far in the lead.
1985 - 3rd century BC it was
on the outskirts of the Roman empire. Hatra became a UNESCO world
heritage site in 1985. Destruction of Hatra by ISIS in Iraq. Irana
Bokova. In 2014 Hatra was invaded by ISIS. April 2015 the destruction
of Hatra Iraq. (5 Oct 2015. National geographic. Andrew Curry).
2 Aug 1990 – Iraq invaded Kuwait. So
the US sent troops to Saudi Arabia. The Gulf war. (Gerald S Posner.
Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).
2 Aug 1990 – Iraq’s Saddam Hussein
invaded Kuwait. (The great cold war. Gordon S Barress ©2009 US).
27 Feb 1991 – The Gulf war ends after
Iraqi troops, Kuwait is retaken by the US. (Chch Star NZ. Today in
history 27 Feb 2015).
20 Aug 2002 – Abu Nidal died in
mysterious circumstances in Iraq. Guardian UK 20 Aug 2002.
2003 – Iraqi oil production nearly
ceased after its conquest in 2003. The market for foreign imports
contracted.
2003-2004 – There were between 10,000
to 100,000 civilian casualties in Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of US
troops, contractors and bureaucrats. (Economic gangsters. Raymond
Fisman. Edward Miguel (c)2008 US).
March 2003 – The US invasion of Iraq
in March 2003. Violent looting of cultural treasures. Destruction of
artifacts and documents in Iraqi museums in Baghdad. Only a few days
after US troops invaded Iraq, almost all major academic libraries had
been torched and pillaged. Nearly every archeolological site in the
southern desert was systematically plundered. (Archives power.
Randall C Jimeson (c)2009 US)
April 2003 – US troops entered the
Iraqi city of Mosul for the Iraq war. The ancient city of Nineveh was
the capital of the Assyrian empire. Assyria as Iraq. In 732 BC
Assyrians invaded Israel. See Isaiah. (The Harbinger. Jonathan Cahn
(c)2011 US).
April 2003 – In Iraq most cultural
sites were looted and burned. In mid April 2003 the National library
and archives, was a national disaster. Looting and destruction of
cultural property. Archives and ancient manuscipts at cultural sites.
Loss of irreplacable cultural materials. The cultural heritage of the
people of Iraq. Archeological theft in Baghdad. Looting of archival
treasures. (Archives power. Randall C Jimeson (c)2009 US).
April 2003 – Trafficking in
archeological artifacts from archeological sites in Iraq. Private
collectors were buying them. (A universal history of the destruction
of books. Fernando Baez (c)2004 US).
April 2003 – Mosul Iraq. The ancient
city of Nineveh was the capital of the Assyrian empire in Iraq.
Mosul. Tigris and Khosr rivers. Kouyunjik and Nabi Yunus. Ninevah.
(the Harbinger. Jonathan Cahn (c)2011 US).
April May 2003 – Baghdad in May 2003
after US troops seized the city, a form of cultural destruction.
Vandals and looters. Museums and libraries were linked to the Baghdad
power structue. They burned to the ground. On 12 April 2003 looting
of Baghdad's archeological museum. 30 objects of great value and
14,000 lesser objects were stolen. The gallery was destroyed. (A
universal history of the destuction of books. Fernando Baez (c)2004
US).
14 April 2003 – A million books in
Iraq's National library were burned. The national archives with ten
million registries from the Republican and Ottoman periods were also
burned. The library of the university of Baghdad and the Awqaf
library. University's all over Iraq. In Basra the museum of natural
history was burned, the central public library and Islamic library.
In Mosul the museum library, manuscripts and texts. In Tikrit the
museum was looted. (A universal history of the destruction of books.
Fernando Baez (c)2004 US).
14 May 2003 – Iraq appealed for
archeologists to excavate mass graves. Michael Jansen. The Irish
Times Dublin.
17 Sept 2003 – Scott Peterson. How
Wahhabis fan Iraqi insurgency. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke (c)2011).
14 Dec 2003 – Saddam Hussein in
Tikrit. Iraq timeline. History timelines.
14 Dec 2003 – Saddam Hussein was
pulled from a small hiding place in the village of al Auda. (The 9/11
wars. Jason Burke ©2011).
2004 – The highest numbers of foreign
militants in Iraq, up to two thirds, came from Saudi Arabia, most
entered Iraq through Syria. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011).
31 March 2004 – Four private
contractors working for American company were ambushed in Falluja,
lynched, dragged through the streets and mutilated. (The 9/11 wars.
Jason Burke ©2011).
22 Oct 2004 – Mass graves in Iraq.
Eamon Delaney. The Irish Times Dublin.
7 Nov 2004 – The US offensive into
Falluja Iraq began. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011)
17 Dec 2004 – Thomas E Ricks.
General, Iraqi insurgents directed from Syria. Washington Post.
8 June 2005 – Christopher Drew.
Tresha Mabile. In the desert, evidence for case against Saddam, at
burial site US team aids Iraqi court. Int Herald Tribune.
2006 – Thomas E Ricks. Fiasco. The
American military adventure in Iraq. The Praeger press New York.
2006 – Robert D Kaplan. Imperial
grunt. On the ground with the American military, from Mongolia to the
Philippines to Iraq and beyond. Vintage books New York.
30 Nov 2006 – Saddam’s forces
filled mass graves with children. MG.CO.ZA Iraqi troops shot mothers
and children in the head, then dumped them into mass graves by the
score.
1 Dec 2006 – Saddam’s forces filled
mass graves with children. Kurdish. Iraqi troops gunned down mothers
and children then bulldozed them into mass graves.
5 Dec 2006 – John F Burns. Accounts
of atrocities aired at Saddam’s trial. Children were herded into
mass graves. Int Herald tribune.
17 July 2007 – Iraqi morgues resort
to mass graves as bodies pile up in Diyala. Ali Ahmed. Global Info
Network New York.
10 Sept 2007 – The Iraqi foreign
ministry said that starting on 10 Sept 2007 Syria will require visas
for Iraqi’s coming to Syria for economic trade or education. AP.
Syrian foreign minister Walid al Moualem told Iraqi FM Hoshyar Zebari
by phone on 30 Aug 2007. (Stratfor intel summary 31 Aug 2007).
2008 – A universal history of the
destruction of books. Northern Iraq. Fernando Baez.
20 Feb 2010 – Mass graves contain the
remains of 272 Kurdish children. Soma Digest Suleimanieh Iraq. Anfal
campaign.
20 Feb 2010 – Mass graves, children.
Soma digest Iraq. Three mass graves contain the remains of 272
Kurdish children. Dubiz town Kirkuk. Children were victims of
genocide. The Anfal campaign in 1988.
28 Feb 2010 – Dinosaur media anvol.
Hundreds of children. Three mass graves in Dibuz Kirkuk. Hundreds of
bodies of innocent children.
2011 – Fuel on fire. Oil and politics
in occupied Iraq. Greg Muttit.
16 Feb 2013 – Mass graves of ISIL
victims. Discovered in Iraq Mawtani. Two mass graves with 50 victims,
Yazidi missing.
15 May 2013 – An upsurge in violence
in Iraq left 389 people dead over 3 days. (Wikipedia 15 May 2015).
30 Sept 2013 – 54 people were killed
by a series of car bombs in Baghdad Iraq. (Chch Star NZ. Today in
history. 30 Sept 2015).
2014 – More than 3.2 million people
displaced in Iraq since 2014. UN. (Twitter. Press TV. 17 Oct 2015).
June 2014 – AEI. ISIS seized $400
million from Mosul bank. ISIS smuggles its oil to market in southern
Turkey. Black market oil trading.
June 2014 – ISIS captured Mosul.
$US429 million was looted from Mosul’s central bank. Bank robbery.
Saudi Arabia and Qatar are accused of funding ISIS.
15 June 2014 – ISIS claims massacre
of 1,700 Iraqi soldiers. Time. Mass graves.
19 June 2014 – Who finances ISIS?
Business Mosul. ISIS is the richest terrorist organisation in the
world.
10 Aug 2014 – Report. ISIS terrorists
bury women and children alive in mass graves. Yazidi. Getty images.
10 Aug 2014 – Sinjar, hundreds of
Yazidi found in ISIS mass graves. Zero hedge.com Victims, women and
children buried alive in scattered mass graves.
10 Aug 2014 – Iraqi militia execute
500 people, some are buried alive. Sky news. Jihadists bury women and
children alive im scattered mass graves.
10 Aug 2014 – Yazidi women and
children were buried alive in mass graves in Sinjar by ISIS.
Independent Sentinel.
11 Aug 2014 – Yazidi mass graves
found in northern Iraq. Al Arabiya. Buried alive in Sinjar.
12 Aug 2014 – ISIS world’s scariest
terorist group, also its richest.Yahoo finance.
14 Aug 2014 – Daily Star beirut
Lebanon. ISIS seize control of new weapon, wheat.
19 Aug 2014 – ISIS atrocities against
Yazisi’s mass graves. Inquisitr.com Women and Children ISIS was
targeting for the mass graves being dug.
24 Aug 2014 - $2 million day in oil
smuggled out of Iraq and Syria by ISIL. Gulf news UAE.
28 Sept 2014 – ISIS in Iraq and
Syria. Andreas Bicker. ISIS is the richest terrorist group in the
world. Charles Lister. Gunter Meyer. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and
UAE. Oil fields in northern Syria. Looting the central bank of Mosul.
Cathy Burke. (Bizshifts).
28 Sept 2014 – ISIS is the richest,
$2 billion terror based financial, rivals Wall street. Islamic state
of Iraq and Levant. Extortion, crime and oil. Martin Chulov. $2
billion Jihadist in Iraq and Syria. Michael Knight. Oil refineries
and trafficking. Howard J Shatz. Oil fields in Iraq and Syria.
(Bizshifts).
2 Oct 2014 – Scott Bennett. CIA,
Swiss banks fund ISIS. Shell game.
17 Oct 2014 – Avi Lipkin. Saudi
Arabia finances ISIS. YouTube. The Manning report.
24 Oct 2014 – Cutting off ISIS cash
flows. Brookings institute. ISIS main source of finance is derived
from its control of oil.
25 Oct 2014 – ISIL, Islamic State oil
fuels war for $1 million a day. The Australian. John Lyons. Jerusalem
Israel.
27 Oct 2014 – US plans to attack ISIS
finances. KGNS.
5 Nov 2014 – Iran’s leader raps
Turkey for looting Iraqs oil by buying oil from ISIL. Fars news
agency.
13 Nov 2014 – SNC LAVALIN KENTZ corp
inks 3 year $110 million oil contract in Iraq.
16 Dec 2014 – 150 women were executed
after refusing to marrry ISIS militants. Anadolu agency. Fallujah.
Bodies found in mass graves.
22 Dec 2014 – Girls dragged into sex
slavery and sold for $25. Rape and brutality suffered by Yazidi’s,
jihadists. Anthony Loyd. Shariya Iraq. The Times London UK. Amnesty
int. Escape from hell. Sex slavery and Islam in Iraq.
23 Dec 2014 – Teen avoids ISIS sex
slavery. The Times London UK. Amnesty int. 12 years old, sold and
raped into sex slavery.
23 Dec 2014 – Sex slavery ISIL. FARS
news agency Tehran. Iraqi women and girls raped into sex slavery by
the ISIL terrorists.
23 Dec 2014 – Yazidi women are
tortured in sex slavery and ISIS captivity. Amnesty int. Daily news
Egypt.
23 Dec 2014 – Sex slavery ISIL. Al
jazeera America. Women and girls from Iraq’s Yazidi minority are
raped into sex slavery by the Islamic state.
23 Dec 2014 – Two mass graves have
been found, victims executed by ISIS in Saadiya in Diyala. Iraqi news
agency.
29 Dec 2014 – Yazidi women and sex
slavery. The Kurdish globe. Erbil Iraq, northern Iraq and victims of
sex slavery.
30 Dec 2014 – Mass graves of
Ayezidein have been found in Sinjar. National Iraqi new agency.
Bagdad. Nine mass graves of victims of Ayezidein victims of ISIS.
2015 – The rise of the Islamic state.
ISIS and the Sunni. Patrick Cockburn.
5 Jan 2015 – The ISIS economy. FT.com
Mosul.
23 Jan 2015 – UK warns of long battle
with Daesh. Gulf news. London. US led coalition, will take two years
to expel Daesh from Iraq.
28 Jan 2015 – Jordan will release an
Iraqi prisoner, if ISIS returns a pilot from Jordan. Al Arabiya news.
31 Jan 2015 – IS militants seize 15
oil workers in northern Iraq. Xinhua news agency.
2 Feb 2015 – Mass graves of Yazidi
have been found. Shot and slaughered by ISIS. Arutz sheva Israel.
2 Feb 2015 – ISIS Yazidi mass grave,
with bodies of children, women and men. IBTimes UK. Kurdish forces
foud yet another mass grave, with the remians of 25 Yazidis.
3 Feb 2015 – Another Yazidi mass
grave found near Sinjar. Bas news. 20 Kurdish Yazidi children, youths
and seniors, several mass graves found.
7 Feb 2015 – Yazidi mass graves
found. Arutz Sheva Israel. Mass rapes and torture, mass executions by
ISIS.
8 Feb 2015 – Yezidi mass graves found
in Zumar following ISIS withdrawl. Aranews. Erbil Kurdish skulls of
six children and the bodies of two women found.
15 Feb 2015 – Yazidi mass grave.
Those who did this are not human. Al Jazeera America. Victims of ISIS
have been found in a mass grave, 36 bodies.
18 Feb 2015 – ISIS are trafficking
human organs. FARS news agency Tehran Iran. Mass graves with 10 to 20
bodies each, with incisions on their backs. Some of the bodies are
mutilated and body parts are missing. Missing organs of bodies.
19 Feb 2015 – ISIS is selling the
human organs of slain people to finance. Zee news. ISIS is the
richest terorist organisaton ever. (I saw pictures of them harvesting
organs of live people).
19 Feb 2015 – ISIS harvests body
parts for money. Daily Mail Glasgow Scotland. Bodies have been found
in mass graves, with surgical incisions and lacking body parts and
organs missing.
27 Feb 2015 – Digital Journal. Brett
Wilkins. A new UN report says Islamic State may be committing
genocide.
28 June 2015 – Threat to Kiwis (New
Zealand troops) in Iraq, after a Commander was killed. Stuff.co.nz
Commander at Camp Taji was killed in an ambush at his home.
24 July 2015 – The mosque of prophet
Yunus in Mosul. Relates to Jonah. ISIS destroyed it. Iraqi site built
on top of a Christian churc,h built on the Assyrian city of Nineveh.
(National geographic. Andrew Curry 5 Oct 2015).
17 Sept 2015 – SNC Lavalin group inc.
Iraq contract worth $500 million. Exxon mobil corp. Exxon west Qurna
oil field in Iraq. (Financial Post. Jonathan Ratner).
19 Sept 2015 – Twitter. Anonymous
uncensored. Turkish jets hit Kurdish camps in Iraq. More than 55
people were killed. Reuters.
Oct 2015 – WHO cholera outbreak in
Iraq. Contaminated food and water. Biowatch.
Syria research
Syria
3000 – 1600 BC – Mari, bronze age
palaces, temples. Archives on clay tablets. Royal palace was looted
by ISIS. 5 Oct 2015 National geogrphic Andrew Curry.
2500 BC – Sumerian.
2400 BC – See 1974
2400-1200 BC – Archeological evidence
shows earthquakes, economic collapse and famine. Excavations in
Ugarst in today's Syria. The late Bronze age. There was a great
earthquake 1200 BC. 2400-2300 BC. (Apocalype. Amos Nur (c)2008 US).
2254-2218 BC – Research in Ebla
Syria. The Akkadin King Naramsin. In Ebla there was looting and
fire. The library in Ebla palace was burned and looted. Words in
Sumerian and their meaning in Eblaite by 2500 BC. (A universal
history of the destruction of books. Fernando Baez (c)2004 US).
690-480 BC – Archives collections,
records of the Egibi banking family of Babylon. City of Ebla, ancient
Tell Mardikh. Clay tablets, archival records, temples. King
Ashurbanipal ruled Assyria from 668 to 627 BC. Writing on tablets and
government control. (Archives power. Randall C Jimerson (c)2009 US).
323 BC – Alexander the Great died in
323 BC. His empire was in fragments, Lands of Macedon, Syria and
Egypt. To Syria belonged Babylonia and Assyria. (The Romans. (c)1949
RH Barrows UK).
11th century BC – Nineveh
Assyrian 21 Elul Syria. An earthquake walls fallen down temple.
(Apocalypse. Amos Nur (c)2008 UK).
0000 – Jesus Christ was born and
lived.
40 AD – Muslims called Jesus Christ
ISA the prophet. By 40 AD the centre of the Christian faith became
Antioch, on the border of what is now Syria and Turkey. The followers
of the way were first called Christians. (The Middle East ©2006 C
Catherwood).
273 AD – Syria's Palmyra was
destroyed by Roman armies. National geographic 5 Oct 2015. Andrew
Curry.
632-651 – Muhammed's death in 632,
the entire Arabic peninsula was under Muslim control. Califs between
633 and 651, most of the Middle East, the Muslim crescent. (Gods
assassins ©2009 UK G Baddeley. P Woods).
7th and 8th
centuries – Islamic military and economic empire in medieval times.
Central register divans Persia, Damascus Syria. Iran, Iraq and North
African mosques, archival Syria. (Archives (c)2005 Sue McKemmish
Australia).
28 Jan 1099 – Crusaders siege of Hosn
el Akred Syria. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history 28 Jan 2015).
9 Aug 1138 – Rapture ready. Aleppo
earthquake 230,000 people dead.
9 Aug 1138 – In Aleppo Syria. 230,000
people died in an earthquake. USGS historic world earthquakes.
11 Oct 1138 – In Aleppo Syria an 8.5
earthquake, a church collapsed killing 600 guards and civilians.
Total death toll was 230,000 deaths. Towns near the quake were
completely destroyed. (List 25.com. Today in history).
Aug 1176 – Sultan Saladin, siege to
Syrian stronghold of Masyaf. Syrian leader Sinan. (Gods assassins
©2009 UK G Baddeley. P Woods).
1192 – Acre in Syria surrendered to
Richard in 1192 on condition that he gave its Turkish garrison safe
passage. Once the city was in Christian hands 2,700 Turks were
beheaded. (Gods assassins (c)2009 UK G Baddeley. P Woods).
5 July 1201 – Timeline of
earthquakes. 1.1 million people were killed in Syria.
18 May 1291 – The city of Acre was a
crusader port in Syria. Sultan Qalawun, Mamluk army, Muslims and
Christians. Acre was the last crusaders stronghold in the Middle
East. The Mamluks were Islamic warrior slaves. (Gods assassins ©2009
UK G Baddeley. P Woods).
22 Jan 1837 – Timeline of
earthquakes. Thousands of people were killed in Syria.
22 Jan 1837 – An earthquake in
southern Syria killed thousands of people. Timeline internet.
1938 – Palmyra in 1938 photos.
National geogrphic archives. 5 Oct 2015. Andrew Curry. Destruction of
the arch by ISIS. Ancient sites in Syria from 2,000 years ago. Roman
mosaics were found in Syria and sold on the black market by ISIS.
Funding ISIS.
1943 – Baath party, movement of Arab
resistance was formed in Damascus by Michel Aflaq and Sala al Din
Bitar. They supported the Rashid Ali pro German regime in Iraq, which
set up a fascist background to the party.
1958 – Syria joined with Egypt to
form the United Arab Republic. A plot in March 1958 to assassinate
Nasser, to shoot down his plane, as he was to land in Damascus Syria.
This was to be followed by the assassination of Syrian President
Shukri Kuwatly. (The house of Saud. Said K Aburish (c)2005 UK).
1964-75 – Syria in 1964 Sabatino
Moscati an archeologist at the university of Rome. Excavation of Tell
Mardik in Syria. 34 miles south of Aleppo. The site of the city of
Ebla. In 1975 archelogoists found thousands of tablets and a room
used as a library. The Ebla library with 15,000 tablets. (A universal
history of the destruiction of books. Fernando Baez (c)2004 US).
1965 – Cuba welcomed the founding of
the PLO. First contacts with Palestinian Fatah in 1965 in Algiers and
Damascus.
Aug 1969 – TWA flight 840 Rome to
Athens was hijacked to Damascus. It was destroyed after the hostages
were freed.
29 Aug 1969 – A TWA airliner from LA
was hijacked to Damascus. Two Palestinians were not brought to trial.
Early 1970s – While building a
revolutionary movement in Iran. The exiled Ayatollah Khomeini
supported the PLO and al Fatah brigades. He funded and trained
militant groups in Syria with Syrian aid on Syrian soil. Shiite
Muslims supported the groups, which were dominated by Sunnis under
protection of a left wing dictatorship.
May 1970 to Jan 1971 – In May 1970
the Tapline, an oil pipeline running from Saudi Arabia to the port of
Sidon in Lebanon, was damaged in Syrian territory. Syria refused to
allow the Tapline to be repaired. The oil did not flow for 8 months
until Jan 1971. The shortage of less than half a million barrels a
day to Europe was felt. And for the first time in oil history prices
increased. (Yamani ©1988 J Robinson).
July 1972 – Sadat expelled the
Russians from Egypt. Moscow was still able to strengthen ties with
Syria and Iraq. (Arms bazaar ©1977 Sampson).
1973-75 – Cuba provided military
support and personel to Syria during the Yom Kippur war.
17 Dec 1973 – A hijacked plane from
Italy to Greece, flew to Damascus, where it stopped for 2 hours for
fuel and food, it then flew to Kuwait.
1974 – Library and collection of
written knowledge at Ebla in northern Syria, which was discovered by
Italian archeologists in 1974. More than 16,000 clay tablets were
found buried in ruins, which date back to 2400 BC. Tablets in
Sumerian and Semitic script, records. (A history of info storage and
retrieval. Foster Stockwell ©2001 US).
1974-78 – Two Soviet arms recipients,
Syria and Iraq, account for $8.6 billion or 84% of Soviet arms sent
to the Middle east region.
1975 – The site of the ancient city
of Ebla. In 1975 archeologists found thousands of tablets and a room
used as a library. The Ebla library, classification. 15,000 tablets
Lexicographic tablets, wooden shelves and bookcases. Words in
Sumerian and their meaning in Eblaite by 2500 BC research in Ebla. (A
universal history of the destruction of books. (c)2004 US).
8 July 1977 – A Kuwait airways Boeing
707 from Beirut to Kuwait was hijacked to Syria.
1980 – Syria signed a treaty of
friendship and cooperation with the Russian Kremlin in late 1980.
Syria could get the Soviet Union’s latest and best weapons. Syria
has no oil wealth, with which to purchase Soviet arms. Syria predates
Iraq as a Soviet client, recipient of military supplies from the
Soviet Union.
1980 – Archeologists found remains of
the Royal palace of Ebla. Main archives on 2,000 clay tablets, stored
on wooden shelves. Administration records, textiles, metals palace
archives. Animal breeding and agriculture. (Archives power. Randall C
Jimerson (c)2009 US).
11 Jan 1980 – Albert Stern. Cautious
visit with Syrian Jews. Cleveland Jewish news p15. Info on the
treatment of Jews in Arab lands.
1982 – Four Arab countries account
for more than 70% of Soviet arms exports to the Middle East region.
With Iraq and Syria far in the lead.
2000 – The US imposed sanctions
against North Korea’s Ch’angguang Shinyong company, for selling
missile tech to Syria. (Bill Gates. China, N Korea hit with
Sanctions. Washington Times 28 June 2001).
5 June 2000 – China is assisting
Syria and Iran to develop advanced missiles, missile engines and
guidance systems. (Ross Dunn. Beijing helping Syria with missiles.
The Times UK. 5 June 2000).
Aug 2000 to Sept 2001 – The CIA said
Syria continues to work towards developing and producing a solid
propellent rocket motor capability. North Korea and Russia continue
to provide equipment and assistance for Syria’s liquid propellant
missile program. The CIA also said Syria continues towards building
liquid fuelled Scud-C missiles with assistance from North Korea.
(Anthony H Cordesman. Weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East.
Centre for strategic and int studies 15 April 2003).
17 Dec 2004 – Thomas E Ricks.
General, Iraqi insurgents are directed from Syria. Washington Post 17
Dec 2004.
23 July 2006 – Iran’s charge
d’affairs in Syria. IRNA reports and RFE/RL. Ghazanfar Roknabadi.
26 July 2006 – Supreme national
security council secretary Ali Larijani arrived in Damascus late on
26 July 2006. Nehr news agency and Reuters reported. He is there to
discuss regional developments with Syrian officials. Larijani is also
to meet with Hezbollah secretary general Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah.
Reports on 27 July 2006 said.
5 Aug 2006 – Ali Akbar Mohatashemi,
former Iranian ambassador to Syria and the founder of Hezbollah,
Mohtashemi was one of Ayatollah Khomeni’s students.
27 Nov 2006 – Two French men were
expelled from Syria, they were under investigation for suspected
terrorist links.
10 Sept 2007 – The Iraqi foreign
ministry said that starting on 10 Sept 2007 Syria will require visas
for Iraqis coming to Syria for economic trade or education. AP
reported. Syrian foreign minister Walid al Moualem told Iraqi FM
Hoshyar Zebari by phone on 30 Aug 2007. (Stratfor intel summary 31
Aug 2007).
24 Nov 2011 – Report Russian has sent
Syria super advanced S-300 missiles and has sent advisors. By David
Lev. Arutz Sheva Israel national news.
2 Dec 2011 – Reuters Geneva. UN urges
action in Syria. Russia and China object, by Stephanie Nebahay.
4 Dec 2011 – The hackers RevoluSec
infiltrated Syrian government computers and other projects. (The many
faces of Anonymous. Gabriella Coleman ©2014 US).
8 Dec 2011 – Reuters. Syria not in
civil war but situation grave. ICRC.
9 Dec 2011 – CNN Massacre feared
brewing in the Syrian city of Homs.
9 Dec 2011 – Washington Post. Red
Cross halts some monitoring inside Syria by Joby Warrick and Liz Sly.
Detainees inside Syria.
10 Dec 2011 – 10 people are dead as
Syrian opposition warns of massacre. AFP. Sydney Morning Herald.
Protests in Homs.
13 Aug 2012 – Missing person when 31
years old. Male now aged 33. From the US. Interpol.
12 Oct 2012 – Biden admits that US
Pres Obama is arming the Muslim Brotherhood to take over Syria.
Frontpage mag. By Daniel Greenfield.
28 Oct 2012 – 128 people were killed
during civil war in Syria. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 28 Oct
2015).
11 Nov 2012 – Israel fired a warning
missile after Syrian members strike Golan. Radio free Europe. Radio
liberty. Reuters. AP. AFP.
5 Feb 2014 – A short history of
Syrian orphans. Counterpunch. Barbara Nimri Aziz.
11 Sept 2014 – al Qaeda plots 9/11.
Twitchy.com. Abu Sulayman al Muhajir was a muslim preacher from
Australia and now is a leader of al Qaeda in Syria.
27 Oct 2014 – al-Baath party official
meets the Fearab Venezuela delegation. Syrian Arab news agency SANA.
Al-Baath Arab Socialist party, Venezuela.
31 Oct 2014 – Syrian air strikes kill
over 200 civilians in ten days. Firstpost. Bombing by the Syrian air
force in ten days killed at least 221 civilians, a third of them
children.
9 Nov 2014 – High Wycombe. Muslims
from Buckinghamshire left to fight in Syria. Telegraph London. Jihad
in Syria.
16 Nov 2014 – Sunday Times London.
Men from High Wycombe Buckinghamshire travelled to Syria to join ISIS
Islamic State.
3 Dec 2014 – Blowback from the
foreign jihadists. Daily Times Pakistan. More than 15,000 foreign
jihadists from 80 counties are in Syria fighting.
18 Dec 2014 – The mass graves of 230
tribespeople were found in Syria. Deir Ezzor Alakhbar. ISIS in Syria,
children.
Jan 2015 – Superbad. ISIS and al
Qaeda. Daily Beast. AQAP. Islamic State ISIS and al Qaeda.
9 Jan 2015 – British M15 chief says
Syrian terror groups are plotting to attack the UK. SMN weekly. 600
British militants who went to Syria joined ISIS. Al Qaeda in Syria.
9 Jan 2015 – al Qaeda ISIS militants
in Syria are plotting attacks on the West. Warns British intel M15.
International business Times, Indian edition. NBC news.
9 Jan 2015 – Fanatics set their
sights on Britain. Daily Mail Glasgow Scotland. Al Qaeda plotters in
Syria are planning mass attacks.
9 Jan 2015 – Cape Times South Africa.
Militant al Qaeda have blown up a 13th century tomb in
Syria.
10 Jan 2015 – A Syrian based cell of
al Qaeda. Complex terror plots against the west. M15 says.
Independent UK. Sky news. Yahoo and Fox news.
11 Jan 2015 – al Qaeda is plotting
massive deadly attacks on the West. British M15 chief says. Fox news.
Al Qaeda militants from Pakistan went to Syria. British militants to
attack the UK. Sky reported. 600 British militants went to Syria to
join ISIS.
13 Jan 2015 – Terror worse than 9/11.
Daily Mail. 5,000 terror suspects are at large after returning from
Syria. Warns Europol’s Tom McTague.
14 Jan 2015 - Nusra inches closer to
Idlib airport. The Daily Star Beirut Lebanon. Al Qaeda in Syria on
the outskirts of the Abu Dhuhur.
14 Jan 2015 – Govt tried to hush up
leaks about shipments to Syria and ban the internet. Cihan news
agency CND. Arms shipments by Turkish spy agency to opposition groups
in Syria, including al Qaeda.
14 Jan 2015 – Syrian Nusr executed a
woman for adultery. Al Arab London UK. Beirut. Al Qaeda linked public
execution of a woman accused of adultery in northern Syria.
16 Jan 2015 – US Pentagon to deploy
400 troops to Syria. Cyprus Mail. Colonel Steve Warren.
16 Jan 2015 – Italian hostage release
raises questions about ransom. Cyprus Mail. Italian media and Arab
report, 12 million Euros or $14 million may have been paid to al
Qaeda in Syria, the Nusra front.
19 Jan 2015 – Death of Iranian
general in Syria.. Israeli conflict with Hezbollah. Haaretz.
23 Jan 2015 – ISIS goes east, 300
Chinese Jihadis via Malaysia. (Arutz Sheva. Israeli news. Ari
Yashar).
25 Jan 2015 – Legal insurrection.
Former ISIS prisoner says ISIS wants an attack worse than 9/11. Ahmad
Rashidi. Aleistar. Andrew Johnson. He went to Syria from London.
Simon Tisdall The Guardian UK.
27 Jan 2015 – US backed Kurds seized
back most of the Syrian border city of Kobani. Islamic State. Wall
Street journal.
2 Feb 2015 – Bus bombing kills Shiite
pilgrims in Syria. Wall Street Journal. Six people were killed. Bomb
attack on pilgrims from Lebanon in Damascus Syria.
21 June 2015 – ISIS plants mines in
part of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. Huffington Post. Beirut
Lebanon. Reuters. Islamic State has planted mines and bombs in the
ancient part of the Syrian city of Palmyra. Roman era ruins there.
28 July 2015 – Russia may resume $1.6
billion oil and gas projects in Syria. RT.
7 Aug 2015 – Charisma news. 11
Christian missionaries were crucified and beheaded. Annie Cotton.
Aleppo Syria. ISIS on 7 Aug 2015, then on 28 Aug 2015 they were left
on crosses for two days. ISIS raped the women then beheaded them and
left their bodies on crosses. Christian Aid Mission in Syria.
5 Oct 2015 – Dura Europos, Greek town
on the Euphrates near the Syria Iraq border An old Roman outpost. The
world's oldest Christian church, synagogue, temple was looted by
ISIS. National geographic. Andrew Curry.
5 Oct 2015 – The arch of triumph
,gateway to the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, 2,000 years ago. It
was destroyed by ISIS. Andrew Curry. National geographic. It dates to
Roman times. The Syrian civil war left 230,000 people dead and
millions of people homeless. Palmyra, Damacus. Reuters.
8 Oct 2015 – Reuters Beirut, ISIS
killed three Assyrian Christian captives. They were among 200
Assyrian Christians kidnapped earlier this year in Syria.
8 Oct 2015 – Time mag. ISIS is
destroying UNESCO world heriage sites. Palmyra in May 2015. ISIS
destroyed the 2,000 year old Arch of Triumph in Syria. New York Post.
Destruction of Palmyra arch. Rome Insider.
10 Oct 2015 – Xinhua China. France
launched new airstrikes in Syria today. France had its first
airstrikes in Syria on 27 Sept 2015.
10 Oct 2015 – al-Arabiya.net.
Reuters. ISIS was near Aleppo. Russian airstrikes. Iran's
Revolutonary guard corps General was killed near Aleppo.
15 Oct 2015 – Islamic state ISIS near
Aleppo as the Syrian army prepares for an assault. Dominic Evans. Tom
Perry. Stuff.co.nz. North of the city of Aleppo. Syrian army, Iranian
troops and Russian jets. Iran sent thousands of troops. Hama
province. Iran supports Assad. US made anti tank missiles sent.
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